I have a pretend Indian boy that lives in my house. When house work hasn’t been done and I don’t feel like doing it I shout for my boy and curse his tardiness, “Baboo! Where is that boy? When I get hold of him he’ll have a thrashing – BABOO!” When I say Baboo I clap my hands in the way you can use if you want a waiter to spit in your food. Apparently I can’t do this at work, so why is my boss, who is Vietnamese by birth, allowed to tell us all that when she meets her new boyfriend’s friends she’s going to pretend that she is a Thai bride and that he bought her off the internet. I pointed out that she was being racist to herself, but she doesn’t care, so apparently that’s OK. Well Baboo doesn’t even exist, so how am I supposed to hurt his feelings; political correctness gone mad!
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- 2008-07-11 @ 16:18:10
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- 2008-07-11 @ 16:31:53
Try it - see if you get offended. (Just make sure no one else is around to see you talking derogatory to yourself).
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- 2008-07-11 @ 16:41:55
If Baboo joins a union, goes on strike and demands a pay rise (2 thrashings instead of just the 3) I can lease out my current housekeeper. He's very meticulous and has a curious addiction to bleach- for cleaning, mind, not for shooting up on. He's 1/2 wog, so there's still an opportunity for partially racist behaviour.
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- 2008-07-11 @ 17:03:01
You can’t use the W word. Though I have a hunch the servant you are trying to palm off on me is your Dad (I only thrash boys, God this gets worse) which would mean that you are being racist to 1/4 of yourself, 3/4 of you is ganging up on the other quarter, oppression in action!
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- 2008-07-11 @ 17:17:09
So I'm also being racist to myself.. only a quarter but still. The paddy quarter and frog half are at odds with it all the time.
You're sexist and ageist as well as racist! You'll get a restraining order from boys against you at this rate...-
- 2008-07-11 @ 17:24:16
You're right I am breaking all sorts of employment rules by only employing an imaginary boy-servant, but I might be able to get away with positive discrimination if I imagine him Indian.
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- 2008-07-25 @ 16:31:02
is he at his mother's funeral again? These imginary boy-servants have too many imaginary mothers. Sort him ahhhhhht*!!!
*said in an attractive southeast london drawl
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- 2008-07-11 @ 18:18:14
Hehe - I like the way you think. PC is poo: there is no racism in your most amusing scenario.
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- 2008-07-11 @ 18:35:22
S&F have an imaginary Cockney tosser in their house.
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- 2008-07-11 @ 19:58:39

You is a 1920s toffynosed twonk?!
coooohaalll!
Do you have an elephant foot umbrella stand? ananananananaaaa a a thing with all the spokes n stuff?!?!?!?!
Wow mister, can I shine your shoes?

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- 2008-07-12 @ 13:56:16
I don't have a baboo but I do have a Scudder. He's a muscular farm hand from the West Country. I have a growing suspicion he's falling in love with me. He stands in the grounds of the house gazing at the windows and often asks me "Master*, when are you going to come down to the boathouse?" and that sort of thing.
*Master is pronounced "maaaaster".
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- 2008-07-13 @ 13:59:35
You could take advantage of his devotion to manipulate him in to carrying out dangerous and illegal acts for you and then stitch him up to the law and let him rot in prison. You say he is muscular, is there anyone you want strangled?
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- 2008-07-14 @ 00:48:05
If he went to prison I'd have nothing to look at. And he's so helpful around the garden.
Scudder wouldn't sully himself with strangling. He'd probably go in for a swift poisoning or two.
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- 2008-07-12 @ 21:42:25
Trade in you house boy for a Thai mail order bride... give her a good thrashing when, well whatever! Fight fire with fire!
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- 2008-07-13 @ 14:01:21
She could clash with the Philippino maid. . .
Kibitz
Mmmm ...
Can one be racist about oneself?
I’m gonna have to think about that ... Adam.